Chapter 151: Take Control of the River

It's bloody to fight in the face of injustice, but for the tribe, it's not in the right interests. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The tribe now has more than 200 prisoners of war with the family of the carved flute, plus this group of prisoners of war. With the use of iron, leather armor, bows and crossbows, Wang Chuan was confident that he would defeat a tribe that was much stronger than himself. Even if several times the enemy came to attack, Wang Chuan had a way to repel it.

However, in this way, the tribe will pay a great price, especially since the agriculture that has just begun to be cultivated will be destroyed. This is something that Wang Chuan cannot allow.

In the era of fishing and hunting, it was difficult for one person to feed two or more people. The tribe's current hunting team uses the mountain gods to play drums, combined with bow and crossbow traps, and can indeed feed three times as many people, but this is not long-lasting. The drumming of the mountain god is similar to killing chickens and taking eggs, and the surrounding mountains and forests will not be able to withstand a few such tosses and will have no prey. At that time, if agriculture cannot keep up, the tribesmen will have to face the need to move or interrupt various infrastructure construction, and carry out large-scale animal hunting and other work. In another place, where is there the benefit of salt and iron that can be used by yourself? Once these people cultivated by themselves are lost, it will take too much time to cultivate them from scratch.

For the sake of a little injustice, there is a war, and it is really worth the loss to cause such a problem.

Even if they can win easily, it won't do the tribe much good. Now the tribe lacks basic management talents. There is no proper person to carry out grassroots management, there is no way for people to carry out a proper social division of labor, and no matter how many people are controlled, no matter how many tribes are captured, it is meaningless.

If there are other ways to solve the problem, it is better not to use war. Playing all kinds of small tricks, Wang Chuan felt that he would not be worse than these prehistoric people.

But that's next month, and even if we have to go earlier, there's still plenty of time to do other things in the tribe.

Among all the things exchanged, Wang Chuan's favorite was undoubtedly linen. Now that the weather is hot, it is easy to cover the prickly heat when you wear fur again, and everyone is about to return to a slippery state. Although human body hair is heavier today than in later generations, it is not as much as that of animals. Running and fighting in the forest naked, it is still easy to scratch. Moreover, men and women are not covered, and it is difficult to limit impulses, which can easily lead to internal contradictions.

However, such a little linen cloth could not meet everyone's clothing, and in the end, Wang Chuan calculated that only men could have knee-length trousers, and women could have more than one vest at most, and it was not guaranteed that everyone would have it. In this case, it is natural to ignore the slave for the first time. If you want everyone to have clothes to wear, or to wear long clothes and trousers, you have to wait until after the harvest of the jute you grow in the fall.

Many women have experience in making clothes after a winter of study, and Wang Chuan taught them a little, and it didn't take long for the tribe to change their clothes successfully. For men and warriors who went out, Wang Chuan still required them to carry crocodile vests with them, and they must wear them when fighting or hunting. The fighting style of the tribe Wang Chuan has seen, and it is good luck that there is no protection and no injury.

In addition to clothes, it's time to change your shoes in the summer. In order to resist the severe cold in winter, Wang Chuan taught them to make long boots. Now many people are so hot that they can't wear it. Although everyone is barefoot all year round, the soles of their feet are relatively thick, but there are always thorns in the forest that can prick people. Unable to wear long boots, Wang Chuan was ready to teach the tribesmen to weave straw sandals.

Later straw sandals were generally woven from straw straw straw. But now that the seedlings have just been planted in the field, Wang Chuan can only replace them with other things. The frog vine is small and soft, the thatch is wear-resistant and strong, and the cattail grass is smooth and thornless, all of which are excellent materials for weaving straw sandals. If you use thorny miscanthus to weave, you don't want feet.

Wang Chuan plucked a lot of grass by the creek and came back, and after the roots were washed, he wanted to fry some food, but when he saw that the baby elephant was greedy, he fed it to eat. It also knows to share and gives more than half of it to the baby rhinoceros.

After the leaves of the grass are dried, they are first patted softly and then rolled into finger-thick strings. Wang Chuan knew the easiest way to weave straw sandals. The person sits on the ground, attaches the rope to the two big toes, pulls it back a foot from the middle, pulls out the four warp threads, and then crisscrosses the ropes on both sides to the middle. Knitting a sole the size of a footboard, wearing a few pieces of hemp rope on top and tying it to the foot, a straw sandal sandal was officially born. These shoes are non-slip and breathable, and most importantly, they are easy to use and simple to make, so the children of the tribe know how to do it at a glance. Within a few days, the people of the tribe, including the slaves, wore these shoes.

After the first canoe of the tribe was launched, the bark behind the tree led people to work day and night with Lambla, and made more than a dozen canoes of all sizes to come out. The water speed of the Yeyuan River is not fast, which is very suitable for canoe driving, and since then, there have been many shadows of boats on the river, which disturb the creatures on the river.

At Wang Chuan's request, everyone in the tribe had been on a canoe and could row, even a child of seven or eight years old could row fast.

The people of the tribe who went to the wolf's den stronghold to hunt actually knew that they would let the bark and others carry them to the location downstream of the wolf's den, and they would hunt at the location of the wolf's den after they went ashore there. The next day, they asked Bark and others to use boats to pull the prey on the river bank near the wolf's den, while the hunters walked back to the tribe on the road, and by the way, they hunted again, and they also happened to bring the prey back to the tribe. According to Ling's statistics, it is said that this will save half the manpower compared to before, because the ship carries more than the human carry.

Wang Chuan knew this method and couldn't help but secretly admire. This is really progress brought about by practice, and it is difficult to think of it out of thin air.

Anyway, with these canoes, the River Tribe finally managed to control the river in their own hands.

With a boat, there are all kinds of hidden dangers of not being able to swim. Although it is dangerous in the water, if you fall into the water, the survival rate of swimming will be much higher.

The river was not yet suitable for swimming, so Wang Chuan had a pool dug into a 10-meter-square pool in the creek and then led the men and women of the tribe to learn to swim. Everyone is still afraid of water, and the one-meter-deep waterhole actually makes people shrink back. After Wang Chuan tried to enter the water, he was followed by a baby elephant, a little rhinoceros and the eight-and-a-half-sized little wolf dog. These animals have reached the season of moulting, and this time they are soaked in the water, and the tribesmen are even more reluctant to go down.

It was Bihu who broke the deadlock. He plunged into the water one by one, and after several laps in the water, the others followed suit.

The people of the tribe now took everything for granted, so it was not surprising that he could swim in the water. But if you want to learn like him, you won't have confidence. But it's different when Bihu also goes into the water, at least the bark thinks that he won't be worse than Bihu. As soon as the tiger got out of the water, he drove the bark with him, and the people behind him followed him one by one. It doesn't matter if you can swim or not, but it's really fun to play in the water.

So everyone went into the water, and soon the whole pool was full. (To be continued.) )